Originally posted by Seth
i took a test saying my sub-coincouis is preouccipuied about health, and i heard that luciding leaves some people tird afterword.Could my sub-coincious be stoping me from luciding?
Actually, whether or not a Lucid dream is enervating or not depends upon the dream content -- whether one is putting out energy or receiving it. In Dreams of Light one wakes up with something of an afterglow that lasts the day long.

Now, regarding while your Dream Mind is blocking your attempts at lucidity. I would suspect that your Dream Mind has some issues that it feels needs to be addressed first. The Dream Mind, after receiving so many Suggestions to go Lucid, certainly would not leave you entirely clueless as to why it is refusing the request. Have you noticed any recurrent dreams, or on-going dream motifs. Many people think that 'understanding' dreams is enough, but often the Dreaming Mind wants the Dreamer to more than understand. The Dream Mind is looking for the Dreamer to make a correct or appropriate response to the Dream Action. The Dreaming Mind presents us with Tests and we cannot move onward until we Pass these progressive Tests. My feeling is that you are having a series of repetitive dreams to which you have not yet made the correct response, and that your Dreaming Mind will not allow Lucidity until you get over this particular hump, whatever it is.

So, how many Dream Motifs are there? The most common one is to be trying to escape from some malignant force. Well, the correct response is to turn and fight. You don't even have to win, in fact it is probably preferable to get killed by it. The point of getting killed is to, first, DON'T WAKE UP, but to stay dead for about 20 seconds until you realize that you are not dead. Voila! You are now Immortal and Deathless. You can make no progress in dreams until you know in the very core of your Dream Self that you are Deathless and Immortal. One can't really be comfortalbe flying and levitating without this underlying confidence in one's deathlessness, and certainly no Heroic Action can be taken in dreams without the Fearlessness that comes from know that one can laugh in the face of Death.

Or perhaps you have another issue.